LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI

1. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI CORSO DI LINGUA INGLESE 2 30 ORE DI LEZIONE FRONTALE DOCENTE DOTT.SSA LUISELLA LEONZINI E-Mail Address luisella.leonzini@scfor.units.it TIPOLOGIA ESAME PROVA ORALE / ORAL INTERVIEW FINALITA (CEF, B1) SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKEN INTERACTION ABILITA (CEF) READING, SPOKEN PRODUCTION, SPOKE INTERACTION

2. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI ANNO ACCADEMICO 2007-2008 THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICS IN THE LANGUAGE OF NEWSPAPERS: TWO BRITISH QUALITY PAPERS, THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A LINGUISTIC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS

3. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI THE PROGRAMME • INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS • THE QUALITY AND THE POPULAR PRESS: THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AS QUALITY PAPERS • HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPERS • A SELECTION OF ARTICLES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS • COMPARING ARTICLES WITH SAME TOPICS

4. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI BIBLIOGRAPHY PART ONE INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL LINGUISITICS • N. FAIRCLOUGH, Analysing discourse: textual analysis for social research, Routledge, London, 2003 • K. BALLARD, The Frameworks of English, Palgrave, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001 (solo cap. 2, 3, 4)

5. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI PART TWO THE GUARDIAN AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH : HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER • WWW.GUARDIAN.CO.UK • WWW. TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

6. LAUREA SPECIALISTICA IN STUDI EUROPEI PART THREE THE LANGUAGE OF THE NEWS : TEXT ANALYSIS • A. BELL, The Language of News Media, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991 (solo cap 9) • D. REAH, The Language of Newspapers, Routledge, London, 2000 (solo cap 2, 3, 6) • G. Kress & T. Van Leeuwen, Reading Images. The Grammar of Visual Design, Routledge, London, 1996 (solo cap. 2 e 3) • J. MORLEY, Truth to tell, Clueb, Bologna, 1998

7. THE LANGUAGE AND ITS FUNCTIONS • WHAT IS LANGUAGE ? • LANGUAGE AS A RESOURCE FOR EXPERIENCING ANY SOCIAL ACT OF SPEECH/ DISCOURSE • LANGUAGE IN A SOCIAL – SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE • LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS • EXPERIMENTAL • INTERPERSONAL • LOGICAL • TEXTUAL

8. LINGUISITICS AS A TOOL TO DEAL WITH LANGUAGE A LINGUISITC APPROACH TO TEXT ANALYSIS • TEXT AS A SEMANTIC UNIT: AN ACT OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE • TEXT AS A PROCESS AND AS A PRODUCT • THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE TEXT AND ITS CONTEXT OF SITUATION • THE CONTEXT OF SITUATION AND ITS FEATURES

9. THE STRUCTURE AND THE TEXTURE OF A TEXT • STRUCTURE: HOW A TEXT IS LOGICALLY ORGANIZED • TEXTURE: HOW THE ELEMENTS IN A TEXT ARE LINGUISTICALLY AND SEMANTICALLY LINKED • COHERENCE AND COHESION IN A TEXT

10. CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA THE CONCEPT OF COHESION • THE CONCEPT OF COHESION: COHESIVE TIES AND COHESIVE DEVICES • COHESIVE DEVICES: ENDOPHORIC AND EXOPHORIC • ENDOPHORIC COHESIVE DEVICES : ANAPHORIC AND CATAPHORIC • COHESIVE DEVICES: GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL • COHESION AND COHESIVE CHAINS: IDENTITY AND SIMILARITY CHAINS

11. CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA A TEXT AS A GROUP OF CLAUSES • WHAT A CLAUSE/SENTENCE/PHRASE IS • CLAUSE AS A MESSAGE AND AS AN EXCHANGE • BELOW THE CLAUSE : NOMINAL AND VERBAL GROUPS • ABOVE THE CLAUSE : CLAUSES RELATION • TYPES OF INTERDEPENDENCY : PARATAXIS AND HYPOTAXIS • LOGICO-SEMANTIC CLAUSES RELATION : ELABORATION, EXTENSION AND ENHANCEMENT

12. CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE E PUBBLICITA THE LANGUAGE OF JOURNALISM • THE RULES OF COMMUNICATION: QUALITY, QUANTITY, RELEVANCE AND MANNER • QUALITY AND POPULAR PAPERS • THE IMPORTANCE OF HEADLINES IN COMMUNICATING NEWS • THE HEADLINES SHOULD: ATTRACT THE READER’S ATTENTION, SUMMARIZE THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE WRITER’S ATTITUDE, INDICATE THE REGISTER OF THE ARTICLE, INDICATE THE FOCUS OF THE ARTICLE • HOW JOURNALISTS DEVELOP THE NEWS: THE INVERTED PYRAMID CONCEPT

13. THE HISTORY AND THE ARTICLES OF THE PAPERS • THE PAPERS’ HISTORY. • WHO, WHEN, WHY, HOW? AN OVERIVIEW OF THE PAPER WHICH HAS DEVELOPED AND ACQUIRED A WORLDWIDE REPUTATION AMONG BOTH THE BUSINESS AND CULTURED READING PUBLIC. • WHAT ARE ITS ARTICLES ABOUT? ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY, LANGUAGE, ADVERTISING, CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE ETC. • THE LEADING ARTICLES: ARTICLES OF COMMENT. THE LEADING ARTICLES • THE REPORTS: REPORTING FACTS • THE ARTICLE STRUCTURE: TOPIC, PRE-HEADLINE, HEADLINE, SUB-HEADLINE AND ARTICLE. • COHERENCE AND COHESION IN THE ARTICLES • COHESIVE DEVICES AND CHAINS IN THE ARTICLES

14. DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS • COLOURFULNESS : THEUSE OF FIGURES OF SPEECH BOTH IN THE HEADLINES AND IN THE ARTICLES • SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITY: HIGH LEXICAL DENSITY, GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY • TECHNICAL WORDS/EXPRESSIONS: LANGUAGE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE RESTRICTED TO MEMBERS OF A DISCOURSE COMMUNITY • JOKEY STYLE: THE HEADLINES ARE REMARKABLE INDICATORS OF LINGUISITC STYLE: METAPHORS AND PUNS

15. DEVIANCE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PAPERS • NOMINALIZATION AND/OR VERBALIZATION IN THE HEADLINES • NOMINALIZING PROCESSES, ACTIONS: A MARK OF DEVIANCE • ALTERNATING FORMAL, TECHNICAL AND INFORMAL EXPRESSIONS / WORDS: CAPTIVATING THE READERS’ ATTENTION • THE USE OF VERBS: MODAL VERBS OF NECESSITY AND POSSIBILITY, INFINITIVES, PREDICTIVE AND SUASIVE VERBS, THE CONDITIONAL AND HYPOTAXIS, SPLIT AUXILIARIES VERBS • THE USE OF TENSES: THE PRESENT AND THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS, THE PAST SIMPLE AND THE PRESENT PERFECT, THE -ING FORMS, THE INFINITIVE, THE CONDITIONAL